Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.